Psychology and Deterrence

by Robert Jervis, Janice Gross Stein, Richard Ned Lebow

Overview

Now available in paperback, Psychology and Deterrence reveals deterrence strategy's hidden and generally simplistic assumptions about the nature of power and aggression, threat and response, and calculation and behavior in the international arena.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801838422
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	04/01/1989
Series:	Perspectives on Security
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.64(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Robert Jervis is the author of Perception and Misperception in International Politics and How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics. Richard Ned Lebow is the director of the Program in International Relations at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

--Foreign Affairs

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction: Approach and Assumptions
Chapter 2. Perceiving and Coping with Threat
Chapter 3. Calculation, Miscalculation, and Conventional Deterrence I: The View from Cairo
Chapter 4. Calculation, Miscalculation, and Conventional Deterrence II: The View from Jerusalem
Chapter 5. Miscalculation in the South Atlantic: The Origins of the Falklands War
Chapter 6. Saving Face for the Sake of Detterence
Chapter 7. Perceptions of the Security Dilemma in 1914
Chapter 8. The Deterrence Deadlock: Is There a Way Out?
Chapter 9. Conclusions
Notes
Index

Editorial Reviews

Innovative, thought-provoking, and well worth reading.
--Choice

[A] sophisticated and preceptive book.

A provocative collection.
--David C. Unger, New York Times

From the Publisher

Innovative, thought-provoking, and well worth reading.

Choice

A provocative collection.

New York Times - David C. Unger

A provocative collection.

— David C. Unger

New York Times